Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) shot back at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) after the congresswoman attacked Buck over his response to a letter about alleged poor jail conditions for Jan. 6 defendants which she called “factually wrong and completely out of touch.” “When you’ve got people that care more about their social media accounts then...
A spokesperson for the Pentagon challenged Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) over his continued blockade on senior military promotions, saying that a solution around his protests would stop all work in the Senate. Tuberville has prevented more than 300 senior military promotions from being approved by the Senate for nearly six months due to a protest...
Protesters on Thursday interrupted Peter Navarro, a former Trump economic adviser, as he sought to address the press outside a Washington, D.C., courthouse, where he had just been convicted of contempt of Congress for his failure to cooperate with the House Jan. 6 select committee. “Here we are, with one of the most important constitutional...
The U.S. military is moving some of its forces from a base near Niger’s capital Niamey to another in the Agadez area following a July coup in the city, the Pentagon announced Thursday. The United States “is repositioning some of our personnel and some of our assets from Air Base 101 in Niamey to Air...
Microsoft agreed to fund a carbon capture technology that uses the natural properties of limestone to take carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, the startup firm Heirloom Carbon announced Thursday. The tech giant will purchase about $200 million worth of carbon credits — equivalent to 315,000 tons of carbon — over 10 years from Heirloom...
Welcome to The Hill's Health Care newsletter {beacon} Health Care Health Care The Big Story Florida supreme court to hear challenge to 15-week abortion ban Abortion access will be on the line Friday when Florida's highest court considers a challenge to the state's 15-week abortion ban. Chasity Maynard/Tallahassee Democrat via AP A group of...
The administrator in charge of vetting claims has received more than 28 million applications for a payment, said Lesley Weaver, co-lead counsel for the plaintiffs in the case.
Sens. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) clashed on the Senate floor Thursday, debating Vance’s proposed bill to ban future mask mandates for COVID-19. Vance’s bill, announced yesterday, would prevent the federal government from enforcing mask mandates in places like airplanes, where they were once in place during the height of the pandemic. “We...
A Republican Super PAC aligned with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is under fire from Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear for including his underage daughter in a new ad.